2006-08-24 09:57:52 · 11 answers · asked by cluckcluck 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
My kids loved action songs at this age. Pattacake, row your boat, wind the bobbin up, they love having the one to one attention as well as the music and rhythmn.
2006-08-24 10:03:49 · answer #1 · answered by Jude 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a lot of great activities! Blocks can help strengthen the mathematical part of a toddler's brain. You can help by stacking and counting blocks as you stack. The kids have fun toppling them and that's a way to teach "up" and "down", too.
Don't worry about buying expensive blocks, either, there are really cheap ones out there or you can make some out of boxes (mac&chz, cake, any food box...and shoe boxes are good, too). Kids don't care!
Also, rhyming songs and books activate learning centers in kids' brains.
Most of all, HAVE FUN with your child! Play outside, with pots and pans, sing in the car, walk on tippy toes...
2006-08-24 11:18:22 · answer #2 · answered by Cleo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
children will enjoy anything as long as you are doing it with them.
Wash mums car is a favourite with my son, we also fill a big plastic box full of water and bubbles and play washing the plastic containers we have.
Swimming is great and afterwards my son is so tired he will go straight to sleep.
visit a park or a beach or just go for a walk and point things out to your child. Reading together is fun at this age and painting or crayoning is messy but they love it.
2006-08-26 01:56:10 · answer #3 · answered by mich 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three little monkeys jumping on the bed.My 13 mth old loves it.
He also loves to roll a little(can't fit in mouth)plastic ball across the floor and chase it.Singing and dancing also.He loves his little Bob Builder computer that teaches him how to count and plays songs.Anything you want to teach him,he will pick up on very fast.
2006-08-24 14:52:05 · answer #4 · answered by hotmama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bought the Baby Einstein flash card, they have colors, animals, and places..she loves them... my daughter is 17 months old...she also loves to Leap Frog movies Letters Factor, Words Factory 1&2 and MAth Circus...or the Leap Frog Leap Pad is fun to do with her
2006-08-24 10:03:52 · answer #5 · answered by sjeboyce 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Simple puzzles ( shapes). Trip to the park, zoo, walk, trip to go feed ducks at the lake/pond. Simple hands on fun stuff. Playing with the pots and pans and a wooden spoon.
2006-08-24 10:08:05 · answer #6 · answered by TIA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
playdough, making cornflake cakes. walks in park, feed ducks, cbeebies! library, arts and crafts, throwing ball,hide and seek, stories,toddler groups,books that teach colours shapes numbers and alphabet, nursery rhyme cassettes and cds, big cardboard boxes for pretend cars trains and houses. visiting farms and zoo. action songs. saucepan drums with wooden spoons, long bath with all the toys in, sand and water play, look on NETMUMS and maybe join the site its v useful to mums and full of info and contacts.
2006-08-24 10:08:23 · answer #7 · answered by princess s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at 18months my son would go mad for a pad of white paper and a crayon, he loves seeing what he was drawing, paints, and things too, anything that he could make a mark with, id put him in his high chair and then he couldnt escape and draw on walls etc.
2006-08-24 19:36:58 · answer #8 · answered by emma b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swimming..... babies that small can learn to swim. Singing, stringing things- like cheerios to make necklaces, yoga- you'd be suprized what babies can mimmic, magnadoodle, chalk, thick strings, playdough, rice and beans in a tub and let them play with it. fridgerator magnets, make a tent and let them play in it.
2006-08-24 10:09:12 · answer #9 · answered by Shawna M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clay pigeon shooting is a favourite with this age group.
2006-08-24 10:03:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋